Though these times were considered the ugly years for a few, this was not so for me. The classes were simple. The teachers were nice to communicate with. There was also plenty of time to spend with family. In my middle school career, I worked, but there was plenty of time have a day of watching television without falling behind or watering the garden for two hours because I didn’t have any homework.
In middle school, I rarely had homework to take home. There was Pre-Algebra to do, but I could accomplish that the first hour that I was home and have plenty of time to spare and do as I please. In Mr. Deering’s class, I loved many of the books we read and loved listening to him read the book to us. He was incredible at storytelling, so everyone was quiet, or we watched tv shows or movies such as: Courageous, National Treasure, or The Twilight Zone. I also had Mrs. Salter for English, I sat next to her and listen to the commentary she would add to books such as:
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The other amount of time was spent outdoors doing work as well, but the other work was not hard either. I loved ground spraying with a four-wheeler for musk thistles and picking up rocks to create a bridge into the creek. These times enabled opportunities to listen to music and sing along, however loudly and off key I had wanted. I also loved watering the garden, due to it gave time to myself and enjoy the beauty of nature. Other kids did not understand how this was fun, but I didn’t care. I enjoyed it and that’s what was important. I also loved spending quality time with family. When it was dark, the entire family would be inside watching a movie. It didn’t matter if we had seen the movie a week before, because we were together. We’d eat popcorn and occasionally have pop if it was left in the kitchen. These were the fun years with every all at the same school and all ride home together even though it took forever before we’d arrived
Imagine having a full time job where you did not get paid, could not quit, and have at least a few hours of paperwork to complete each night. This is what students go through everyday with homework. Homework is assignments sent home from school for students of all ages to finish by a certain due date, for a grade. In the past decade, controversies over the amount of work kids and teens are given has lead many to study the benefits of homework to see if the work teachers assign is actually helping students academically and improving test scores. It has grown to an extreme amount, prevents kids and teens from getting the things they need in life, gets in the way of a good childhood, damages relationships, and has not proven to actually aid
School was a challenge for me when I was younger. Not having the right mindset for school at that time was a major problem as it could affect the way I felt about school for the rest of my life. To me, school was all about who looked the best and who was more popular. I was new to middle school and it was totally different from elementary. It felt as if focusing on school wasn’t as important at that time, needless to say I was on the bandwagon train too. Hanging around and trying to keep up with the cool kids took a toll on my grades tremendously. My schoolwork had escaped my mind in a way. I didn’t see it as a priority anymore.
In the eighth grade, I didn't really ever want to pay attention and to listen to a teacher who´s talking about atoms and molecular molecules. I was a teenage girl who was mostly focused on boys, clothes, and other stuff that would capture my attention. I didn't want to do math equations, I wanted to gossip about who was dating whom and when. I didn't want to study, I wanted to watch movies and tv shows. The only time I admired school was lunchtime because it was where my friends were and you didn´t have to do work.
The work in the middle was more tough and exhausting in the middle school than it was in high school, I had a hard time in middle school, I couldn’t focus in middle school, but when I got to high school for some reason it was much easier to focus. Probably, because I didn’t have the same classes with the people I had in middle so it was much easier to focus. I heard 2 myths before I went to high school I heard that only popular kids have fun and that freshman were looked down upon as little kids. When I finally got to high school I figured out that all of those myths were not true. Anybody could have fun in high school and the freshman is not looked down
The criteria that can apply to me that measure my effort, work and so on I have put into this course would be that I have consistently done (or attempted) all of the assigned homework. My homework was always turned in on time. I have printed off all of the
First of all, homework causes material being taught in class the next day to have greater relevance and is easier to understand. Students who don’t do their homework tend to not understand the material being taught the next day as described in the article, “Why Homework Matters: Top Five (5) Reasons You Probably Should Do Your Homework” by Michael Bromley. According to the article, “If you don’t do your homework, you will most often not know what the teacher is doing in class the next day. (Bromley 2)” If you did do your homework, you would better understand the material being taught the next day. If you don’t do your homework, would fall behind the students who did do their homework. Also, you would have an extremely difficult time catching
This project is honestly a lot like the real world, people with less money don't get as many benefits as the people who have more money and can actually afford to pay for things that make life alot easier. For instance my family who had more money easily had enough to get what we wanted to make our egg safe a lot like the real world and how people have money to keep their child safe.
I hope I didn't offend you in anyway. My intentions of sending you past material was to just help and if you wanted to use it you could. I am sorry if I did, I promise I was just trying to help out because I am sure it is not easy jumping in at the middle of the semester. As for my reading abilities, I know it brings me down a little bit and I know I have to work harder than others but, I am willing to work as hard as possible to get my nursing degree. Reading out loud frightens me after growing up with my dad trying to teach me to read and when I would mess up a word he would yell at me, call me names, or throw the book. I am not telling you this to pity me because, I believe strongly that God gave me this life because I am strong enough to
Going to middle school is dreaded by most students. Waking up early just to get lectured and sit around in a boring class. However my middle school was quite different class often times where hectic many teachers couldn't control their students and lacked respect from them. Causing many teachers and volunteers to be rude and disrespectful to the students as well. Another major difference that made our school
No we days , some school think thid homework is necessary however, I feel that homework is not needed because we need to rest from school and it takes up too much time. in reality it is not necessary to take homework because with all the work we do daily at school is more that enough house is our only place of rest and we are assigned homework as not every day we have to get up early to go the school and to be late to our house and still do the homework is a lot of stress for a single week is very heavy with nine hours a day is more that enough teacher put us a lot of work and then get home and do the homework is a very heavy.
I sat there perplexed by what my third grade teacher’s assignment asked me to do. I read the short story and knew the character’s names, but what was the meaning of the story? I kept asking myself the question hoping that I would understand what I had to write about on the blank page with empty lines.
They are supposed to be educating us. As student we are here to learn. One reason why homework is good is that it increases retention and learning at home. Doing homework also shows how much you studied at home. Not doing your homework, just sitting around, playing games won't get you anywhere in school, and probably in life too.
It is the beginning of October, and I am doing fairly well in my classes. I had all A’s until recently. I got my exam scores back for biology and chemistry and I didn’t do very well. I now have a D in both chemistry and biology. In high school id never had anything below a C. I never got below a C on homework, quizzes, tests, or at all on my report card. When I found out I got a D on my exam, and then in return that making my grade a D my heart dropped. I honestly felt sick to my stomach. The fear of failure was creeping up on me. So I did what all scared college students do, I called my mom. I told her how sorry I was and how stupid I felt. She then of course reassured me that I wasn’t stupid and that this is new and harder and I just need to study more and learn from my mistakes. So that is exactly what I’m going to do, I’m going to
Being allowed to pick the classes for that year and setting up my own schedule let me find out the classes I am strong in and those that I could improve in; it helped me find my strengths and challenged me to do my best. All throughout high school I have retained the most information and am able to use the information daily. Out of all the years high school curriculum is the hardest, having exams, mid-terms, and SOL’s everything affects whether I moved on to the next class and would be given the credits to graduate. It becomes overwhelming and stressful at times but it is worth it. The teachers are a lot better at knowing how to teach students and have a better understanding for the best ways to give information. Some teachers were more strict as others but they want every student to succeed and that showed me that they cared about how well I did. High school has the best environment over all, I never felt that there was a teacher always looking over my shoulder telling me what to do. They trusted me and gave me space allowing me to do things the way I wanted and provided freedom.
Things got back to their usual course meaning I keep spending most of my days in front of my laptop while doing some exercices now and then plus pedalling my bike. I haven't even been to the park anymore to stand on my feet a bit. To be honest in my family there's a bad habbit of easily getting bored of new things after a short while. I should know cause it's the same with me. We all like doing our usual things too much to disrupt our program. But every bad thing always has a good part in it. In my case, since I spend a lot of my time at my laptop, at least I had more time to work on my blog. And I had received many warm positive feedback once I posted all seven days at the horse camp. In fact, Jancso Istvan asked me to translate it into Hungarian